Analytical Compensation for Spatially Variant Detector Response in SPECT With Varying Focal-Length Fan-Beam Collimators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 398-404

  Li, T ^a   Wen, J ^a   Liang, Z ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collimators; Spatially variant detector response; SPECT; VFF

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

FREQUENCY-DISTANCE RELATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIALLY VARIANT DETECTOR RESPONSE; VARYING FOCAL-LENGTH FAN-BEAM COLLIMATORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038382165     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812440     Document Type: Article

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